Boehmeria perennial herbaceous perennial plants. Underground portion is formed by the roots and underground stems linen pocket, can live for decades, stems tufted back there hairs, leaf wide oval or nearly round leaves, dense white hairs on the back of the white-leafed, no white hairs called leafy species, single of flowers, hermaphrodite, complex spikes, female inflorescence in the upper, yellow-green achenes, minimal.
[English name] RadixBoehmeriae
[Alias] home ramie, hemp wild, white linen, garden linen, ramie
[Source] for nettle plants ramie Boehmerianivea (L ..) Gaud. Root. Winter and spring excavation, washed and dried.
[Habitat distribution] Born wasteland, hillsides or cultivation. The main production of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui.
[Character] root irregular cylindrical, slightly curved, long 4 ~ 30cm, diameter 0.4 ~ 5cm. Surface gray-brown, densely verrucose and horizontal lenticels. Cut dough Ministry brown, flaky, yellowish-white wood department. Quality hard, broken flour sex. Gas micro, tasteless, tacky.
Chemical composition of roots contain emodin (emodin), physcion -8-BETA- glucoside.
[Taste] cold, sweet.
[Indications] heat diuretic, miscarriage bleeding, detoxification. For colds, fever, measles fever, urinary tract infection, nephritis, edema, abdominal pain in pregnant women, fetal irritability, threatened abortion, bruises, fractures, sore throat, bleeding disorders.